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A $10 million question and other cybersecurity-related ethical dilemmas amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Source :
- Business Horizons
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Cybercrime and cybersecurity are like two sides of the same coin: They are opposites but cannot exist without each other. Their mutual relation generates a myriad of ethical issues, ranging from minor to vital. The rapid development of technology will surely involve even more ethical concerns, like the infamous example of a fitness tracking company allegedly paying $10 million worth of ransom. Every cybersecurity solution, tool, or practice has to be ethical by design if it is to protect people and their rights. To identify the ethical issues that cybersecurity/cybercrime might bring about in the future, we conducted the first broad and comprehensive horizon-scanning study since the COVID-19 pandemic arose. As we began this project, nobody had the slightest idea that the coming months would bring the COVID-19 pandemic, and that the reality we had known was about to change dramatically. As it soon became apparent, the deadly coronavirus brought completely new cybersecurity/cybercrime ethical dilemmas to light, and some of the ones known before were transformed or shifted. This article presents the results of our horizon-scanning study concerning the ethical dilemmas that emerged amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Subjects :
- Marketing
Cybersecurity
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Ethical issues
Human rights
Cybercrime
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COVID-19
Computer security
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Article
Ransom
Political science
Pandemic
Business and International Management
Relation (history of concept)
Data privacy
computer
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00076813
- Volume :
- 64
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Business Horizons
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e568b94e0db5c7c9fe3ff9918a01815d